re: Have you ever wondered who the Pakistani and Yemeni children (Posted on 1/24/13 at 2:52 pm to Navytiger74)

quote:I'd like to see a tally of all of the blood needlessly spilled by our government, its proxies, and the regimes it's supported since the 1960s. At 6 qts a man, it could probably fill a moderate-sized reservoir.

re: Have you ever wondered who the Pakistani and Yemeni children (Posted on 1/24/13 at 9:37 pm to Zach)

quote:So, 9-11 was revenge because the US killed a bunch of Arabs? Really? When did this occur?

9/11 was a classic example of how blowback manifests itself after a nation spends decades meddling in the affair of other nations around the globe. Surely, you aren't one of those people who believed W when he said, "They hate us for our freedoms", are you?

re: Have you ever wondered who the Pakistani and Yemeni children (Posted on 1/24/13 at 9:39 pm to los angeles tiger)

quote:Didn't Bush go to Congress and they gave approval for him to send troops into Iraq and for us to remove Saddam Hussein?

Do you believe that Congress has the legal and moral authority remove foreign heads of state as it see fit? If your answer is "yes", do any other nations have this right, or is it just an American privilage?

re: Have you ever wondered who the Pakistani and Yemeni children (Posted on 1/25/13 at 7:17 am to joshnorris14)

quote:It was actually mainly revenge for occupying Saudi Arabia.

So what you're saying is "the chickens came home to roost"?

I've got to hand it to you and the Republicans posting in his thread and your other threads calling Obama a murderer, you've now come full circle and support the president's former pastor who also condemns such behavior.

Of course when he said it, your side said he hates America. Still think such criticism of America for unjust wars is "hating America"?

re: Have you ever wondered who the Pakistani and Yemeni children (Posted on 1/25/13 at 7:24 am to trackfan)

quote:What gets me is that folks turn a blind eye to what our government does abroad and then are surprised when the blowback inevitably manifests itself in the form of terrorism.

Different "theys" turn a blind eye depending upon whether or not "their guy" is in power. Mainstream liberals have been all but silent about the president's use of force abroad, though they spent the previous eight years crowing about every boot and shell sent overseas

Lots of conservatives, with the exception of McCain and a few others, have suddenly found their inner pacifist. Libya was somehow a bigger deal than Iraq.

re: Have you ever wondered who the Pakistani and Yemeni children (Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:57 am to Vegas Bengal)

quote:So what you're saying is "the chickens came home to roost"?

No. I'm saying al Qaeda carried out revenge attacks for reasons such as the US occupying Saudi Arabia. I never even implicitly stated whether it was justified or not, so I don't understand where you are coming from.